2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
The 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification was a men's under-17 national football team competition that determined the 7 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Albania in the 2025 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.
Russia were excluded from the tournament due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, 54 teams entered this qualification competition including also hosts Albania, as it was the first time in the championship's history that the hosts started from the qualifying round however being automatically qualified. The qualification consists of a Round 1 played from October to November 2024, followed by a Round 2 played in spring 2025. Players born on or after 1 January 2008 are eligible to participate.
Format
The qualifying competition consists of the following two rounds:- Round 1: 54 teams were drawn into 14 groups. Each group was played in a single round-robin format at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw. The top two teams from each group advance to the Round 2 League A; the other teams played in the Round 2 League B.
- Round 2:
- *League A: 28 teams were drawn into 7 groups of four. The winners of each group qualified for the Final tournament. If Albania was among the seven qualified teams, then the best runner-up team would also qualify.
- *League B: Teams in League B competed for promotion to League A for qualifying round 1 of the 2026/27 U19 EURO.
Tiebreakers
In the qualifying rounds, teams are ranked according to points, and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above ;
- Disciplinary points ;
- UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
- Drawing of lots.
- Points;
- Goal difference;
- Goals scored;
- Disciplinary points ;
- UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying round draw;
- Drawing of lots.
Round 1
Draw
The draw for the Round 1 was held on 3 May 2024 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:
- 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition
- 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition
- 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition
- 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament and qualifying competition
;Notes
GroupsRound 1 was played from October to November 2024.Group 1-------- Group 2-------- Group 3-------- Group 4-------- Group 5-------- Group 6-------- Group 7-------- Group 8-------- Group 9-------- Group 10-------- Group 11-------- Group 12-------- Group 13-------- Group 14-------- Round 2DrawThe draw for Round 2 was made at 11:45 CET on 5 December at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.The 28 teams of Round 1 are drawn in seven groups of four teams. The seven teams ranked fourth in the League A groups will be relegated to League B for round 1 of U19 EURO qualifying for the same age cohort. The teams are seeded according to their results in the round 1. ;Teams entering League A
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